Hi all, I know this probaly isn't the place for this post, but I wasn't sure where else to post it. I have created a 'Remembrance Page' in honor of Terri Schiavo. I will post the image here at 'Osity tomorrow, but I thought perhaps some of you may like to see it now. She was a beautiful spirit and my prayers go to her family and friends. You can view the page here: http://www.421graphics.com/Poser/terri_schiavo.htm Hope you all have a wonderful weekend. Best regards...

what a wonderful dedication. :)

Whenever I think of Terri Schiavo -- I feel many things. And I wonder about many things. Like where we are headed. More of this........and it won't be to a good place. I can't imagine what it would be like to have a police officer with a gun forbidding me from giving a drink of water to my daughter. *********************************************************** Yes......condolences to her family.

...and I don't want to imagine what it would be like to have religious law demolish the established civil law and constitution of this country. If I'd wanted to live in Vatican City, I'd have learned more Italian. So many laws were violated by short-sighted dogooders who let emotion and selfishness get in the way of reason and respect for the rights given to spouses and to states and to the courts... and this includes several congressmen who I hope go to blazes next election! Yes, it was a tragic way to end a life, but those parents are remorseless media hounds and the protesters getting themselves arrested for stupid hijinks were just angling for a few minutes of fame and the attention of a reporter. I know a circus when I see one. (The protesters didn't bother to clean up after themselves, either, just left their trash.) I hope that Terri's husband can indeed keep her burying place secret from those parents lest they show up with flock of reporters in tow and more hystrionics than all the plays of Sophocles. (And yes, I know something about this, too, having been born to such parents.) If it is secret, Terri's body might finally get some peace... whatever of spirit there might have been left this plane years ago. People who analyse images from the media might be interested in the BAG notes, especially March 31: http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/2005/week13/index.html Mar 22, 24 http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/2005/week12/index.html Mar 19, 20 http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/2005/week11/index.html It is a worthy site for people who think. It doesn't mean that we are less compassionate, but that we balance emotion with reason and an understanding of the consequences of desire. Carolly

I totally agree with Carolly. Stating more than the fact I concur with the post above would probably incur major, major violations of ToS. ~S

Stating more than the fact I concur with the post above would probably incur major, major violations of ToS.

On this one point, insofar as it goes: I agree with spinner.

It's for that reason that I won't take this matter where it would naturally go if I were to say the things that I am thinking.

This isn't the right place for it. Or the right thread.

The fight will have to wait for another day.

For now......and with this sufficiency......I'll leave the matter with my condolences to her family.

It's all well and good to be concerned about Terri Schiavo. But where is the concern for the millions of otherwise perfectly healthy children around the world who die of starvation every year. If one tenth of the energy and effort were put into saving them maybe a few of them might live.

Please dear people...I never meant to start a thread that would turn into a 'fight'. I simply wanted to post a link to the image I created as my way of expressing the sadness of her loss. I had been watching her situation for well over a year now and had hoped that the two families would have found a way to solve their differences for Terri's sake. It seems it wasn't possible, but that doesn't mean that so many people wouldn't be hurt and saddened by her loss. Perhaps we can just let it go now and wish ALL who loved her peace and condolences. PS to Fazzel: Yes, of course there are millions of starving children in the world...many of them right here in the states. And there are people who are trying to save them and rightfully so - a never ending battle that may never be won. Please understand that Terri Schiavo was, for a lot of people, an icon for what we each personally stand for...be it on Michael's side or the Schindlers. I suppose it stirred so many people's emotions because we all have family and couldn't imagine being in such a tragic situation. But Terri's gone now and what we are left with is a lesson of love, hope and compassion. I know it sounds sappy, but it really truly is all we ever have on this earth.

Please dear people...I never meant to start a thread that would turn into a 'fight'. I've already said as much as I am going to say. For here and now. The mourning comes first. As is only right. The rest is for another place and time.

i'm glad she's free, now. those people who turned her death into a media circus deserve a very special place in hades, imo. it's bad enough to be stuck somewhere between life and death without having pictures of you paralyzed with your mouth hanging open flashed day in day out to the world at large.

If you were her father and tried to give her a drink of water, you would have killed her by drowning. She hadn't been able to swallow for 15 years. Much as she had no higher brain functions or, by the time she died, much of a brain at all.

you would have killed her by drowning.

shrug

Drowning......starving........she'd be just as dead either way.

One mode is merely a little faster, that's all. Other than the time element -- there's not a dime's worth of difference between the two methods. The end result is the same either way. Take your pick.

And the police officers were there with their guns to prevent such a thing from occuring, anyway. Which was the point of my post.

As tempting as it is to slam into this thing, I'll not do it here.

As I've already stated.

A funeral home chapel isn't the place to debate. Or to fight. Message edited on: 04/02/2005 19:55